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Aoi
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Oh god, this should be fun... 
Anyway, I was wandering through my EB recently and saw that they had dropped this down to $15. I know it was a bit of a mess at launch, but I also know that it's a Turbine game, and those guys are the masters of content additions after launch. So I was curious, has anyone given this a try recently, or is anyone actually playing it? Any impressions on launch vs now? Has there actually been much updated with the game since it launched? I didn't hate the beta, but my system wasn't quite up to spec for it to run well, and the word around here scared me off even more once it was launched.
So yeah, any opinions or even groups should I pick it up would be great. Thanks.
Anyway, I was wandering through my EB recently and saw that they had dropped this down to $15. I know it was a bit of a mess at launch, but I also know that it's a Turbine game, and those guys are the masters of content additions after launch. So I was curious, has anyone given this a try recently, or is anyone actually playing it? Any impressions on launch vs now? Has there actually been much updated with the game since it launched? I didn't hate the beta, but my system wasn't quite up to spec for it to run well, and the word around here scared me off even more once it was launched.
So yeah, any opinions or even groups should I pick it up would be great. Thanks.
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I think if you can find a group to be like your permanent 'party' it would be a lot of fun. I didn't really enjoy it until I stumbled into four or five other players that could really play. Then it was great.
I couldn't convince my RL friends to play with me, though, and most of the people I had met ended up not getting the game. So I can't tell you about post-launch.
The first isn't exactly a selling point.
I briefly reactivated to find only a little extra content, and a bunch of level 10 people doing level 4 elite dungeons for "rep".... it was pretty damn boring.
we also talk about other random shit and clown upon each other
:? That's a bit of a surprising shame. Hmm.
- I played it with a group of three other people only.
- We only played it once a week, and never logged into the game without all of us together (no alts, etc.).
When done that way, the game is fantastic. Go outside of that, and you're looking at shitsville.
Which makes sense, in a rather obvious kind of way. It's the way I'm playing LoTRO at the moment, duoing only with a friend, we only log in if both of us are online and both feel like playing.
When I got 4 friends to play with me it was a damn good time. We all bought the game a little bit after release.
We each played what we wanted and luckily what everyone wanted balanced out our party nicely. We had a tank, a wizard, cleric, rogue, and myself (bard). We were also all pretty new, having only played the beta to at most level 2, so we all went into things fresh (and earlier on when one person had experience with a mission no one else did, we still took it slow and steady).
I think we made it to level 7ish (when the cap was still 10).
I always have an urge to play this, as I think it's a fantastic game. I just don't have a good group.
Eyes forever focused, on the sanguine, metal dawn.
Overall I would say it's a good game if you have the money for the monthly fee and limit play time. The only downside is that if you do want to play it constantly, you will run out of content fairly quickly (though the constant adding of content does keep everything fresh). I would love to see this game in the future (with epic levels added and such).